north korea apparently has a really nice scud upgrade. scuds have turned up in all sorts of conflicts over the decades. in that israel crisis in 1973 during watergate egypt fired scud missiles at the western side of the suez canal. after the u.s. bombed libya in the 1980s libya fired scud missiles at a u.s. facility on an italian island. the soviets used them in afghanistan. the iranians and the iraqis shot them at each other during their war. scuds have turned up all over the place. and they still do. so the news this week that syria is using these scud missiles right now in its civil war -- syria has denied it, but nato says they're doing it. that news is scary. if it's true, and it seems to be true, it means that syria is using ballistic missiles inside their own borders, shooting them at their own people. it is scary. the white house press secretary yesterday described it as a stunning, desperate, and completely disproportionate military escalation in that conflict. but however scary the firing scud missiles at their own people develo